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Some light snow today 🙃

Nice work. Front suspension rebuild i've been asked to do on a TR4. Now i'm busy of the rear suspension on a TR5 PI. I see you mentioning Colin Wake, know him to. Been to his house several years ago on a UK trip with Fox, met him in september at the finish of the 10 Countries Run in the Netherlands. He's a very nice guy 😉

I've bought a metal one 2 years ago from ebay. Let me know how you get on with it. Do want to fit mine on Fox when its gets paint... whenever that will be 😅

That windscreen trim, was it a plastic or a metal one ?

First start up of the year ! She was standing for 42 hours. Starts on the button 🙃

Fox with her big brother yesterday 🙃 Another 1000kms done 😅

Been busy the last few days. Lots of welding on the TR5. Diff mounts made stronger and repaired a little rust hole... that turned out much worse. Sadly my cold (again..) has got worse, so that stops play a bit.

Busy day today... working on TR's 🙃

This is what Im using :

Im using dot 5 as I have a history of using 5 or 6 clutch master in 6 months... Since then using dot 5 and now the masters seem to last a year. But... I dont buy the expensice dot 5 that suppiers sell.

Some more bleeding today.. yes i know its christmas 😅 Then time for a short testdrive.

Years ago I went through i think 5 masters in 6 or 7 months. I had one that failed after 1 week. Bought county, trw ones and even a willwood one. And was using dot 4. Eventually bought county again and dot 5. Then they lasted about a year. On my mother her 2005 KA, still original clutch hydraulics. But one done 60k miles. Mine has a bit more.. 😅 Sadly it seems I need to bleed some more, the feel is still not good. A job for tomorrow 😅

Few days ago noticed some fluid leaking of my pedal 😅 Master was fitted november 2021. So a year and a month old, good going ! They usually last around a year on Fox. And im using dot 5 silicone fluid. Fitted a new Bastuck clutch master and we will see how it goes. Time to order another spare. Tested the starter i've rebuild, works very good. So we got more spare parts.

Found this in the past week in my garage.. forgot I had a rebuild one (M35J one). But I had another one, aftermarket M35G. Already had fitted a new bendix, but nobody had the brushes in stock. Found them a few weeks ago. So soldered them in last evening, now to test it 😅

Just the day before (9 sept) the finish of the Club Triumph 10 Countries Run, my gearbox started to fail. So rushed and fitted my spare box, so could drive for to the finish in the Netherlands to see them all arrive. Now rebuilded that failed gearbox. Front bearing fell apart as did the springs etc from the 3/4th syncro hub. Ironicly a guy I knew had brought over some gearbox bearings for me 😅 Some pics..

Ok. Will measure it all up and see. But will weld a piece of metal outside the chassis, so its stronger then before. Space is tight. But think there is just enough space to do it. It will be a job for after christmas !

Yesterday helped a friend getting his rear suspension apart on his TR5 PI. Found a crack in the right rear top spring mount Ive heard and welded up the stress cracks on TR250/TR5/TR6's on the front suspension previously. But cant find any of the rear top spring mount.. So.. how to best weld this up ?

On my daily Spitfire i've fitted Pioneer speakers in 2013, in the footwells and in the rear panel. Must say im very happy with the 'sound'. Not the best pics, it was cold ! 😅

The last week with the freezing cold, Fox did it great. But... after a night standing or after work, started up slow. Sometimes starter even stopped ! Had a look at the engine earth. No real difference. Then the day after removed the battery disconnect switch that is on Fox,but really never use it. Now starts on the button ! Even fully frozen over and -6, no problemo! Today helped a friend with his TR5 PI. Play in driveshafts, prop, rusty underneath etc etc. So going to get everything apart and replace whats bad, de-rust & repaint the underside etc But again we found more work then we hoped, but it needs to be done 😅

-5 degrees this morning.. No problem for Fox ! Starting is a bit slow sometimes (need to check sll connections). But drives very well. Glad I changed out the 82° thermostat for an 88° one. Nice warm heater ! Last night tested the fogs again.. nice and bright ! Now enough said about rear fog lights 😅

Moss sell blanks with Leyland logo. Bought some years ago for my Spitfire (also 1978). But dont know what type, need to look. https://www.moss-europe.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/?search_group=&q=Key+blank They are actually made by 'Clark and Clark' USA. From there site:

Now in some day light Sadly no fog this morning, only frost (as you can see on Fox).😅

Today fitted the rear fogs. Made/welded a bracket etc. This evening wired them up in my garage (still f*cking cold ! )

50.000kms... Not really, do it times 7... 350.000kms/217.500miles on Fox ! Just run it i guess 😆 She got a good wash to get rid of all the salt from on the road.

Another little project .. My rear chrome fog light has seen better days, mostly on the inside 😅 Rusty .. but still works 😅 So bought 2 Hella ones, just need to make a bracket to fit them. Thinking of fitting one on each side for the 'look'. Will see when I do it.